combination of its 1st to 7th Reports to the African Commission5. In 2014, Kenya submitted its combined 8th to 11th Report focusing on the years 2008 to 20146. Kenya is up to date in her reporting and has been given a green card in the African Commission’s database of status of State reporting7. Kenya has also ratified all the binding legal instruments under the African human rights system that are monitored by the African Commission8. 7. SPECIAL MECHANISM AND PROMOTIONAL VISITS In August 2015, the Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression visited Kenya. KNCHR in collaboration with CSOs (Article 19, TI & ICJ-K) invited and hosted the Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information in Africa for a 5 days advocacy visit. The Rapporteur met senior government officials, Members of Parliament, Commissioners of Independent Constitutional Commissions, Civil Society, Editors Guild, Media Stakeholders and Journalists. She pushed for the enactment of the Access to Information Bill, 2013 among other things. 8. RECOMMENDATIONS KNCHR would like the support and involvement of the African Commission in advocating for the protection of the following human rights that are of concern in Kenya: 1. Accountability of the State for the violation of the right to life in the form of extra judicial executions and disappearances that have been reported in the country. 2. Implementation of the TJRC Report that is long overdue. 3. Increase access to justice for all and especially for persons with disabilities with improvement of accessibility to the courts through physical access, provision of Sign Language Interpretation and provision of information in accessible formats. African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, State Reports –Kenya available at http://www.achpr.org/states/kenya/ (last accessed 30/9/2016) 6 Id. 7 African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, State Reporting available at http://www.achpr.org/states/ (last accessed 30/9/2016) 8 Id. 5 9